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"The Re-covery Model" - an integrative developmental stress-vulnerability-strengths approach to mental health
Investigator(s) / AuthorsPatte Randal, Malcolm Stewart, Deborah Proverbs, Debra Lampshire, Janet Symes & Helen Hamer
| Principal contact | |
|---|---|
| Name | Dr Patte Randal |
| PatteR@adhb.govt.nz | |
| The research | |
| Summary | The "Re-covery Model" is an innovative approach to facilitating recovery in people with enduring symptoms of psychosis and other extreme states. It provides a shared understanding of the "human condition" in the bio-socio-psycho-cultural and spiritual development context in which resilience and vulnerabilities shape the person. |
| Objectives | This paper describes the "Re-covery Model", an innovative approach to facilitating recovery in people with enduring symptoms of psychosis and other extreme states. |
| Study design | This model has been developed by experience-based experts (EBEs), and mental health professionals, some of whom are also EBEs. The method involved continuous informal action research with qualitative and quantitative feedback. |
| Methods | Qualitative, Action Research, Quantitative |
| Results | It provides a shared understanding of the "human condition" in the bio-socio-psycho-cultural and spiritual development context in which resilience and vulnerabilities shape the person. It is easily understood and helps service clients, clinicians and significant others to come to a shared identification of the patterns that create vicious cycles of stigma and deteriorating function. |
| Conclusions | It offers a hope-inducing pathway towards victorious cycles of building resilience and manifesting a life worth living, and integrates intervention strategies from a variety of evidence based therapies to facilitate recovery. The approach and its implementation are discussed in detail. |
| Key Descriptors | Recovery, Intervention/Treatment, Clinical Practice, Peer / Service User, Stigma / Discrimination |
| Disciplines | Psychiatry, Multi disciplinary |
| Settings | Acute Inpatient, Inpatient, Outpatient, DHB (District Health Board), Residential, Community |
| Diagnostic Categories | Psychotic Disorders, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Other |
| Populations | General Population |
| Other Keywords | cognitive behaviour therapy, families, hearing voices, integrative approaches, stigma, user-led services |
| Ethics approval | No |
| Academic led | No |
| Service led | Yes |
| How were service users involved | Undertaking the research |
| Publication in peer review journal | Yes |
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